# Bay Area Meeting -- 12-18-99 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 1999, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191 "1999-12-16T21:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/1 "1999-12-16T21:42:00Z")
So are we still on or what? The last I heard was Saturday, 4:00 at Chevy’s in the Embarcadero. Who’s still going? What name will the reservations be under? How will we know each other? I don’t want a repeat of AuraSeer’s St.Louis fiasco! * * * “There’s a snake in my boot!” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/2 "1999-12-16T21:44:00Z")
Well, you know me. I’ll be there… (if it’s still on, that is). * * * **StoryTyler** _I am too in shape! :::muttering::: Round is a shape._ [C’mon up and see me sometime.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/3 "1999-12-16T21:48:00Z")
Sorry, the date conflicts with another committment. Next time maybe. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/4 "1999-12-16T21:55:00Z")
As far as I know we’re still on. I called Democritus today but haven’t heard back. If I see him tonight I’ll get him to e-mail everyone again with the name of the reservation. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/5 "1999-12-16T21:56:00Z")
You are all still on my calender ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/6 "1999-12-16T22:06:00Z")
Ok, good. How 'bout whoever gets there first start a table for the “straight dope” group of undetermined number? They’ll probably seat us somewhere where tables can be added as teeming dozens show up. Anyone have a better idea? * * * “There’s a snake in my boot!” ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/7 "1999-12-16T23:19:00Z")
Have Fun everyone! _sniff_ I’ll be freezing my ass off at a club recruiting event at my school that day :). ---
**Author:** ![Inky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Inky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/8 "1999-12-16T23:27:00Z")
Hey, a bay are meeting! About bloody time, I was feeling left out. Who do I get in touch with? Inky ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/9 "1999-12-16T23:37:00Z")
I’d like to make it, but 4:00 will probably be too early (last minute xmas shopping and all that). Any chance of pushing it back a few hours? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/10 "1999-12-16T23:39:00Z")
Inky, show up at the Chevy’s at Embarcadero Center in San Francisco on Saturday. (If you can make it, hope to see you there.) ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/11 "1999-12-16T23:42:00Z")
I actually thought 4:00 sounded like a good time (I don’t know who’s idea it was) since we’d probably want to drink and eat a little later and still get home at a decent hour. Embarcadero center is a shopping area, if you want to kill two birds with one stone…and I suspect if you can’t make it at 4 we’ll all still be there for some time later. * * * “There’s a snake in my boot!” ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/12 "1999-12-17T04:25:00Z")
I’ll be there, unless I puke out one of my lungs. I’ve been terribly sick all week long, but I can’t miss this! VogueVixen, that sounds like a winning idea, whoever gets there first grab a table, etc… * * * “Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.” -Tao Te Ching ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/13 "1999-12-17T04:53:00Z")
I’ll be there. Fun fun, a day in the City! * * * ~Kyla “You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.” ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/14 "1999-12-17T05:32:00Z")
You bastards all owe me! Twas my idea in the first place. Somewhat ironically, I can’t go. Gotta read at the 5:00 mass. But I might go down there later. I’ll look for a bunch of weirdos discussing felching, meat flaps, and pubic perfume. Say a prayer to Dusty Baker for me. If you guys take pix, you can send em to me, and I’ll put em on my site. Have fun! Don’t fall in the drink. * * * JMcC, San Francisco, [JJM’s page from the Bay](http://members.tripod.com/~weirdstuff/index.html) If I were a baseball player, and I got beaned by a fastball, I wouldn’t want medical attention. I’d want my limp, lifeless body flung to 1st, cause, dammit, I earned it! ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/15 "1999-12-17T06:01:00Z")
I may be there, not sure, I tend to avoid going up into SF. Prefer the slightly less urban feeling of the Valley. (I know, San Jose is crowded, it just doesn’t feel so hemmed in.) (It also doesn’t help that I just learn it was planned, haven’t been on of late.) * * * \>\>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.\<\< —The dragon observes ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/16 "1999-12-17T16:54:00Z")
For anyone that can’t make it until later on, let me know and I’ll e-mail to you my pager number. That way, if you show up at Chevy’s and we’re not there, you can page us and find out where we’ve run off to. Just an idea. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/17 "1999-12-18T02:23:00Z")
good idea, Dirty ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/18 "1999-12-18T04:02:00Z")
I just emailed you, Dirty Devil. I might show up later. Have a blast, all. * * * JMcC, San Francisco, [JJM’s page from the Bay](http://members.tripod.com/~weirdstuff/index.html) If I were beaned with a fastball, fling my limp, lifeless body to first, cause, dammit, I earned it! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 1999, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/19 "1999-12-19T06:06:00Z")
Guess we’re still on, so I’ll see y’inz later today! Umm… for those of you who don’t know me vewwy well, you might want to go [here](http://sites.netscape.net/towertyusa/homepage) before you head out to Chevy’s… 😉 * * * **StoryTyler** _Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there._ [C’mon up and see me sometime.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191/20 "1999-12-18T22:37:00Z")
Yeah sounds like fun but too far for me…plus doesn’t seem very well planned, I mean what if the place is full or something? Next time sushi in Monterey! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-meeting-12-18-99/12191.md?page=2)